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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	church_n	day_n	sabbath_n	20,024	5	9.8526	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74716	The last visitation: conflicts and death of Mr. Thomas Peacock batchellor of divinity, and fellow of Brasen-nose-Colledge in Oxford. Published by E B from the copie of that famous divine, Mr. Robert Bolton, late minister of Broughton in Northhampton-shire.	Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.; Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1660 (1660)	Wing B3514A; Thomason E2103_1; ESTC R210121	21,659	90

of God much more should you think so of the children of God that come to you I thank God saith he he hath begun to ease me He will in his good time God grant Thus he took his last farewell Although vve depart from our friends in the way yet vve shall meet at the end One told Master Dod that he had uttered such words Now the Lord hath made me a spectacle Whereupon he counselled one that attended on him to be sparing in admitting commers in or speakers lest his brain should be too much heated A friend of his comming to him asked him Dare you murmure and repine against God Why should I so God be blessed It is a signe of grace But I have no meanes You have had them offered But not given with effect They shall I doubt not God grant but I doe not feel it He received a letter from a friend very respective M. Bolton and much respected of them both wherein were written these very words I heard I know not hovv true that our dear Christian friend Mr Peacock is in great danger which hath much greived and afflicted my heart and vvrung from me very bitter teares If his extremities be such his tentations are very like to be sore Tell him from me as one vvho did ever with dearest intimatenes knovv and converse with him that I can assure him in the word of life and truth frō a most just and holy God whose Minister I am That he is undoubtedly one of his Saints designed for immortality and those endles joyes in another world When it was read to him at those words I can assure him c. he said Oh take heed take heed doe you think he vvould or durst assure you unles he knew on what grounds I did deceive my self now God hath revealed more Another time one requested him that he would make his friends partakers of the least comfort that the Lord bestovved upon him as they had been partakers of his grief If I had it I would willingly communicate it Search and take notice of the least How should I have any since God denyeth the means doe you think sense is a fruit of faith Yes at this season although the husbandman hath sown much yet he seeth nothing above ground Applications doe not prove hold your peace my heart is broken Then the promise is yours I would gladly ask you one thing Now you will ask twenty Doe you seek for grace in your heart I cannot How then can you know whether it be there or no It is dead The Lord in whose hand the disposing thereof is dispose it for your good and his glory I thank you What doe you think of that place Whose sins you remit they are remitted c. You know how farre they may goe Howsoever Sir the bargain is not now to be made between God and you Shortly after came one whom he much esteemed Oh I love said he your company for the graces in you and much more to the same purpose Suddainly he brake out into this ejaculation Oh God reconcile me unto thee that I may taste one dramme of thy grace by which my miserable soul may receive comfort One secretly willed that man to desire him to repeat it again Doe not trouble me with repetitions There being a sermon he bade them about him goe thither After he called one and asked him whether the preacher being acquainted with his course of preaching did use his accustomed divisions He told one Satan had borne him in hand and had deluded him to whō the other answered I hope that God will restore you as before to glorify him here No. No. Yea if you were weaker I would hope notwithstanding I desire nothing more God be thanked you have laboured carefully for his glory I would labour after another fashion In the night he prayed and repeated his belief And after resting a while he called those that watched with him Bear witnesse I said not I believe but in generall and as desiring that I might believe One comming to visit him asked him How is it with you My minde was grievously puZZled with sundry distractions this night but now I feel my burthen more light I thank God He was put in minde of that place Isa 54.8 11 12 c. Oh thou afflicted and tossed with tempests and not comforted behold I will lay thy stones with faire colours and thy foundations with Saphyrs And I will make thy windowes of Agates and thy gates of Carbuncles and all thy borders of pleasant stones c. For a little while I hid my self from thee but with everlasting kindnes will I have mercy on thee He lifted up his eyes thereupon being asked what the Lord did say to his soul that had long refused comfort Take heed be not to● bold look to the foundation And then prayed Lord grant m● the comfort of thy deliverance and forgive me my foolishnes that I may praise thy name Then he complained of his idle speeches Upon the Sabbath day one came to him willing him to put his hand to a note of certain debts This is not a day for that We will goe to Sermon God spee● you Now you cannot goe to Church to serve the Lord I pray him to come to you Amen He hardly suffered any to stay with him At evening one did read something to him in Master Downams warfare and asked him doe you think it to be true Yes Therefore you must not trust your sense What not such as mine are But I will not now dispute When they were helping him up and putting on his cloathes upon some occasion one said to him to this effect A childe will not much grieve at the laying aside of an old coat when he hath anew made Whē you shall put on that there shall be no longer nakednes the resurrection will amend all To those that die in the Lord. No doubt you will dye in him having lived in him I have answered you before But I would not believe you in that case The next day a friend of his being to goe forth of town asked him whether he would have any thing with him for he was to leave him and knew not whether ever he should see him again here Look to your calling that it be as well inward as outward He counselled another To be stirring for the glory of God To one standing by he said 〈◊〉 am thinking What On a for● to get grace Put your trust in God So I doe I omit how and tell you that with great patience he continually submitted himself to advise in any means fo● his good In putting his temporall estate in order he deal● mercifully with his poorest debtors yea with some which migh● well pay it His worthy patro● for so he often called him whom for honours sake I name Sir Robert Harley sent his man to him with some aurum potabile together with a book which a Doctour had made in the praise